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The 97th Academy Awards Nominations and Predictions
The 2025 Academy Awards are on Sunday March 2nd. Here I will list the nominees along with my predicted winner. Let me know your thoughts on who should win in the comments. I will mark my predictions in bold.
Best picture
- Anora
- The Brutalist
- A Complete Unknown
- Conclave
- Dune: Part Two
- Emilia Pérez
- I’m Still Here
- Nickel Boys
- The Substance
- Wicked
Best actor in a leading role
- Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
- Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
- Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
- Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
- Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Best actress in a leading role
- Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
- Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
- Mikey Madison, Anora
- Demi Moore, The Substance
- Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
Best actor in a supporting role
- Yura Borisov, Anora
- Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
- Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
- Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
- Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Best actress in a supporting role
- Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
- Ariana Grande, Wicked
- Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
- Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
- Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
Best director
- Sean Baker, Anora
- Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
- James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
- Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
- Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Best cinematography
- The Brutalist
- Dune: Part Two
- Emilia Pérez
- Maria
- Nosferatu
Best international feature film
- I’m Still Here
- The Girl with the Needle
- Emilia Pérez
- The Seed of the Sacred Fig
- Flow
Best adapted screenplay
- A Complete Unknown
- Conclave
- Emilia Pérez
- Nickel Boys
- Sing Sing
Best original screenplay
- Anora
- The Brutalist
- A Real Pain
- September 5
- The Substance
Best live action short film
- A Lien
- Anuja
- I’m Not a Robot
- The Last Ranger
- A Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Best animated short film
- Beautiful Men
- In the Shadow of the Cypress
- Magic Candies
- Wander to Wonder
- Yuck!
Best animated feature film
- Flow
- Inside Out 2
- Memoir of a Snail
- Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
- The Wild Robot
Best documentary short
- Death By Numbers
- I Am Ready, Warden
- Incident
- Instruments of a Beating Heart
- The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Best documentary feature film
- Black Box Diaries
- No Other Land
- Porcelain War
- Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
- Sugarcane
Best original song
- El Mal, from Emilia Pérez
- The Journey, from The Six Triple Eight
- Like a Bird, from Sing Sing
- Mi Camino, from Emilia Pérez
- Never Too Late, from Elton John: Never Too Late
Best original score
- The Brutalist
- Conclave
- Emilia Pérez
- Wicked
- The Wild Robot
Best makeup and hairstyling
- A Different Man
- Emilia Pérez
- Nosferatu
- The Substance
- Wicked
Best costume design
- A Complete Unknown
- Conclave
- Gladiator II
- Nosferatu
- Wicked
Best editing
- Anora
- The Brutalist
- Conclave
- Emilia Pérez
- Wicked
Best sound
- A Complete Unknown
- Dune: Part Two
- Emilia Pérez
- Wicked
- The Wild Robot
Best production design
- The Brutalist
- Conclave
- Dune: Part Two
- Nosferatu
- Wicked
Best visual effects
- Alien: Romulus
- Better Man
- Dune: Part Two
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Wicked
I hope Wicked wins.
The “Substance” is a good choice for the original screenplay award. I hope it will get to win because it has all the elements that should make it happen as far as I am concerned.